Panda Bear - Person Pitch

PANDA BEAR
Person Pitch

So there I sat, parked at the cliff's edge. As I hypnotized the engine, my eyes rested on the cape unfolding before me. The harbour abruptly ended in front of me, the vertex of which nudged the street to the hospital. The hospital was a hazy brown, and the cars like pigments on a postcard. The seagulls gathered on one of the drying dunes as the tide inched out to sea, "Comfy in Nautica" seeped into my brain like the salt our wind carries.

Panda Bear's latest is a new age soundtrack set against indie stoner Beach Boys harmonies, and it's very surreal when you get lost in its blissful malaise. When you prod any member of Animal Collective about what drugs he indulges in, you tend to take a fork in the eye, but there is a definite frosting of hot boxery over tracks like "Take Pills", which starts out in a sleazy ambient groove but morphs into a sing-a-long ditty about clumsy self-righteousness.

The only criticism one could venture is how indulgent the album can be, but in the right mindset it doesn't so much overstay its welcome as occasionally lose its consciousness in moments of sunshine and cocktails. I fecking love this shiz. But I'm not sober, so don't scrutinize my spelling or coherence, suckas.